For an open thread syncing everyone's fast forwarding is going to be challenging. Going to be hard enough with the no commercial replay of GoT at 10:05. Besides, for non-dvr WD isn't on again till after 11. And we'll have 6-8 minutes to kill after the 9 pm live GoT broadcast. Nothing works perfectly. And more people have AMC than HBO most likely.

I normally don't have it, but AT&T is offering 3 free months right now. What perfect timing. The offer is still valid too, so any of you that want in on the action and have U-Verse, call up AT&T right now and they can probably have it activated by the encore presentation of GoT

The book is about military tactics when it comes to zombies, it's a fun read and rather cheap on Amazon. The movie sounds nothing like the book except for the title. That Tom Cruise movie looks pretty interesting though.

I just had to read Theories of International Politics and Zombies for my world politics class. (I know best text book ever. ) It compared World War Z with other zombie fictions. Both are very good reads if you are into the zombies.

It looks like they gave it the Michael Bay treatment. The book is a recount by many people from from all over the world, and from all walks of life on their experience during the apocalypse, and not one centralized story. It's almost like it really happened. The movie looks like the typical summer movie.

I highly recommend the book. The pace and the intriguing and moving stories makes for a really good and quick read.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of the comics, and I don't really like what happened tonight either.

Kirkman said that the comics and the show are two completely different entities. I kind of figured Andrea was going to die because she was pretty well hated. I just think that the whole last episode was kind of rushed. I think that they could have cut out a previous episode and expanded the whole prison attack.

I'm also pretty disappointed that Lilly wasn't even present.

I'll have to watch this episode over again but I feel like the parts that shouldn't have been drawn out (Milton/Andrea) were, and the parts that should have been drawn out (The Governer/The Prison) weren't.

It should have been 2 hours. The Governer really needs to get his. Carl should give it to him, and they had it set up perfectly - like a lob alley-oop slam dunk from Trey. When the Governer wasn't in the town, I thought for sure we were going to get Carl vs Gov. to protect the rest.

What a dissapointing finale to what was a hopelessly dissapointing season. They did absolutely nothing to keep me interested in continuing to watch the show, and there's a chance they just lost 2 viewers in my wife and I. No closure, no setup for the next season, nothing. Worst season finale to any show I've ever watched. Any suggestions for good shows to turn my attention to (besides Game of Thrones of course).

What's my motivation for continuing to watch? What did they give me to think about that's going to hold a special place in my memory as I wait for season 4? I get that what happened was a big deal and huge deviation when compared to the comics, but in the context of the show itself, it doesnt do much for me. Zombies are awesome, but clearly the show doesn't rely on that alone, so I was expecting them to give me a least a little something to whet my appetite for future episodes. With how it was presented, this seemed like more of slowly developing poor man's series finale than the end of a season.

I couldn't agree more Charlie Day. This show has gone the way of Heroes of building up for ten episodes to have an underwhelming finale. I'm done with this show. I'll wait until my buddies review to decide. The plus side of watching the show after it's finished is avoiding 30 hours of commercials.

Someone maybe do me a favor? I just finished reading Storm of Swords and haven't seen any of the show other than a couple YouTube clips. (Don't have HBO, don't plan on getting it, and I'm waiting til the fall to get the Blu-Rays.) What did they end the second season with?

Hmmm....it ain't a medic in the book. And Brienne is marching Jaime along, yes? (Tom Long made reference to that.) I gather they went a fair ways into book 3 at the end of season 2. I ask cause I want to follow along and not accidentally blab at the same time. I know this is supposed to only be the first half of book 3, but I'll be awfully interested to find out where they actually stop.

The RW seems like the perfect way to end the season, but if so then this season would be quite a bit more than just half the book. Although they did nudge Barristan Selmy a long way forward in the storyline. It would've been too hard to keep him disguised all the way through.

I can't imagine we won't see quite a bit of Jon in both seasons three and four, it seems like there's more of him in this book than anyone else.

They can't end on the RW because so many people have described shock to the point of putting the book down after reading that chapter... with that in mind I think they will move it up a little so that other story lines draw peopl back the next week. I think it would be a risk to end with that scene because people may not come back...

I believe RW will be episode 7 or 8 and PW will be either 10 or 1 of next year...

I must be really weird because I felt the same way for about a day... then I finished the book in the next two. Couldn't stop after that. This is a series pretty well known for taking unconventional risks, of course, which the first book/season was a testament to. But I think the book offers the perfect way to draw people back even without the other storylines.

Robb married a women (in secret) who was working on the fields as a medic (sawing off legs in the battlefields) but had some more nobel upbringing. Apologies for not following the details of that too well.

Yes, Brienne and Jamie ended the second season marching along.

This episode thus far has brought Robb to Harrenhal, Tyrion get lambasted by his father for basically being an embarrassing imp that killed his mother. And we just found out that Davos survived. And Jon Snow met Mance Ryder. That's about where we're at.

I'm going to be in a tough decision this summer: I'm 1/4 of the way through the second book but since this season is adapting approx the first half of Storm of Swords, I'll have to decide if I want to surpass the TV series or not...

I don't freak out that they didn't cut off Rick's hand because it causes way more problems on a live action set than it does in a drawn comic (unless you're just an occassional character), and likewise, taking your award winning best actor and having to computer erase his nose everyepisode so that's all people look at doesn't seem dollar or drama smart.

The prison attack was right out of a GI Joe cartoon. Lots of explosions and in the end nobody even has a scratch. Was the prison group intentionally sparing them after the ambush? That would have made sense out of such a lame battle. But I don't think that's it since they turned around and went after Woodbury.

Also... Not a fan of the sociopath 11 year old. That kind of crossed the line.

They could've made Carl look more unhinged if the situation was less 50/50. A lot of people would say Carl did the right thing. The scene should've been way more obvious like the guy dropping the gun and then Carl shooting him.

But I'm not sure that it was bad direction. I think it was purposefully vague, so people could fall on either side of it; not a way to illustrate Carl as lost it. If anything, it might show he's taken Shane's roll when Shane wasn't losing it...that this is how you have to act in this world if you want to stay alive.

In any case, I agree, Hershel was way off base. He not only didn't drop his gun, he was advancing forward. You don't "hand someone" your gun. Because no one should ever let you get that close. Drop the gun or die. Should be an easy choice. Unless you think you can take advantage of the situation.

Watching Talking Dead now, but way more excited about GoT. Definitely watching it again tonight.

My book dilemma is really nagging at me now, though. I guess it's a bridge I'll cross when I get there... and that may be a moot point considering i've only read the first 200 pages of book 2 since mid September. At that rate, HBO will finish season 4 by the time I get a quarter of the way through SoS unless I pick up the pace in the summer.

Unsolicited advice on your dilemma: it's almost certainly not worth worrying about the decision til we see how far into SoS this season takes us. I'll say this though: Unlike the first two books, SoS ends not with a preview chapter, but with an epilogue. I don't know what your threshold is for learning stuff from the book that you'd rather save for the show. Depending on the end of this season, I might suggest finishing the book but not the epilogue. It would let you split the remaining surprises, and the epilogue has no major plot advancement, only a little something to hook your interest into the next book.

Late to the party. I watched TWD finale and thought it was a pretty good finish. I'm glad we didn't loose anyone huge tonight. I can't believe people are complaining about not having a cliffhanger. Also there is a new showrunner for next season and he also directed the episode "clear" which was one of my favorites of season 3. Can't wait for season 4.